People have been saying it for a decade and they’ve been laughing.
You were warned. So, so many times. Yes, you are an idiot.
These idiots will fall for it time and time again because they lack any form of critical thinking skills.
The ol’ classic: Hate politicians but love a billionaire politician.
Fascism, yes please. But don’t you touch my precious gasoline.
Don’t forget paedophilia. Pedos are apparently not a deal breaker.
That’s because they lack empathy, anything that impacts others won’t change their mind, when it impacts them directly is the only time they’ll care and boy are they about to be impacted.
I was genuinely shocked how much this is the way most people are. I just didn’t get out enough to understand empathy is not normal,
I’ve speculated about this a bit.
Our society protects and/or hides from the general masses, a lot of the bad stuff that happens in the world. It’s the media and our lawmakers, but it’s also very cultural.
The Internet has also been very dumbed down. 20 years ago it used to be easier to find videos of some of the horrors that occur around the world. Drug cartel videos, war videos, terrorist videos. Remember rotten.com, etc?
I think seeing stuff like that, or maybe not the extreme detail but at least hearing about it, gives you a different perspective. At least it did for me, towards the empathetic and cautious.
If people are protected and hidden from the bad, how will they ever know? The people I’ve met that lack empathy seem very childish like they’ve never been exposed to anything.
This, in my opinion, is very much on purpose and by design. If our population had all the gruesome details about what really goes on in the world, the wars, the trafficked children, terrorist and drug cartel tortures, all the suffering in 3rd world countries and poverty…
They would be less happy, and therefore less enthusiastic to go buy stuff. Also, many would be causing a ruckus for our leaders to fix it all.
Your purpose is to produce and consume, to prop up the billionaire and elite leadership class. And not cause any problems, or at least kept in control. This is best when you’re “happy” and content. Or at least content enough to keep the machine churning.
The Internet has also been very dumbed down.
What happend is that corporations took over. Sites like Reddit, Facebook and such have their “code of conduct” that limits what you can post and violating that results in losing your account. Both examples made this a very painfull punishment as a Facebook account uses your real name and Reddit make sure that you can’t really make a new account after being banned. The last decade it’s been very noticeable how people start to self censor with bullshit like “PDFile” or “unalive”. We’re living in a 1984 Big Brother re-enactment.
Januari last year I was banned from Reddit over nothing. I did manage to get a new account for allmost a year until I got banned again, again over nothing. But during those months I did experience a lot of selfcensoring because the thread of another ban.
It’s not so much “dumbed down” as it’s become company territory with workplace like rules and policies. And we’re being treated as unpayed personel.
While also making everyone afraid due to violent criminals roaming the streets.
I don’t think it’s most. I think it’s way too many, for sure.
That’s what I used to think. Surely more people have empathy and act on it than don’t.
I used to think people disagree on how to address the issues, but agree on the issues should be addressed.
It’s just not true.
We did vote on it.
But most people didn’t vote. I don’t know that I’d lump them in with the group that did, but for the wrong person.
I wouldn’t lump them all in - some were legitimately disenfranchised - but most non-voters showed zero empathy when the world needed their help for an hour.
So they had to interview dozens there so that they could find that one woman?
PA is full of trumpers. Source: I live in pa.
if only most of these morons didn’t have egos that made them literally hide from the truth.
They’re literally pure ego and nothing else. It’s maddening, having personally dealt with it for years.
The price of gas did it, huh?
yup. it wasnt:
- 40,000 dead Palestinians
- 37 felony convictions
- 2 impeachments
- illegal tariff costs passed to consumers
- US citizens shot dead on the streets
- babies in concentration camps
- ratfucked federal programs
- botched war in Iran
- punishing LGBT persons
- incarcerating women for miscarriages
- unhinged outbursts
- destroying farmer’s livelihoods
- threatening NATO countries with annexation
- lawless gustapo roaming wild
Nope. none of that. It’s when he went to put gas in his Ram pickup that it all hit home.
I mean at least there’s that one trans kid not in the girls badminton team, so it was all worth it /s
Its always “as long as im not affected”
Ao selfsish, short sighted and plane dumb
planes are smarter than plains
After about the third “You’re Fired”, I never wanted to hear anything from that asshole ever again.
I was 18 ish in the late 80s, I saw him on David Letterman. I thought he was a stupid piece of shit, for 30 years I have seen people either talk about how great he is (though it always seemed like the people saying he was great were making fun of him) or about how he scammed people. And every time I think “how fucking stupid can people be”
Conservatives only care when it affects them.
that’s what pisses me off. he’s a fucking asshole, he isn’t a good person for changing his mind.
he probably got an erection watching ICE terrorize minorities and killing people on the streets, or seeing US bomb girls, or the fact that he’s a Pedophile. no the real problem is when he has to pay a little bit more in gas.
*she, so probably no erection.
I mean, her clit probably still got hard, so…
Thr same fucking people who’d put those Biden “I did that!” stickers at the pump will willingly ignore higher gas prices when their pedophile god-emperor causes it.
I mean yeah lots of them do that, but this article is specifically about someone NOT doing that…
i was just talking about this earlier, gas prices are like the ONE thing americans will get upset about. food prices, housing prices, healthcare prices? cost of business
but if gas prices go up ONE DOLLAR (at 10 gallons/fill, this amounts to a $10 increase, so maybe 30% / $40-50 extra bucks a month if you’re commuting; i wfh so i haven’t done that in 5 years now) people start losing their shit
it’s insane to me, and i live here
Gas and taxes. They’ll happily accept massive price increases on everything else, pay hundreds of dollars extra a month for health insurance, rather than pay a small percentage more in taxes or on gas.
Gas prices are symbolic of much more than just the price of gas. It’s the one item that people have to buy multiple times a week, so they automatically keep track of the price, since it is such an integral part of their life. The price is also displayed on big lighted signs all along every roadway. What other consumer item has that much broad public awareness? With that much awareness, gas prices begin to become symbolic for prices in general. When gas prices go up, people instinctually feel like EVERYTHING is going up.
Multiple times a week? What the fuck is going in the US? Are you people drinking that shit? Does that explain the obesity? Are you for real “multiple times per week” you fill up your cars? What a sorry ass failed nation.
I talked to my dad about the gas prices. He said he’s only filled up the tank on his car once this year so far and it’s still half full. Me, I don’t even own a car because it’s a dumb waste of money.There’s nothing wrong with being ignorant of the country but being so rude about it at the same time makes you look like a cunt.
America is a BIG place, with a lot of miles between cities. Most people in America don’t live near any kind of a decent mass transit system, so they have to own a car to get to work every day. Because we are so spread out, many people have long daily work commutes of an hour or more. 2 income households are extremely common, so each one would need their own vehicle to get to work, and there might even be more cars in a home if they have older teenagers who need a car to get to work or school. A household with multiple cars might burn up a few hundreds miles every day, just going to and from work.
However, over the last couple of years, cars have become very expensive, both to buy and maintain, and many people are turning to more affordable alternative modes of travel like e-bikes and motorized scooters. Many states and municipalities are wrestling with new restrictions (age, registration, traffic laws) for these new types of transportation. Now that gas prices are exploding, there will be even more of a demand for personal electronic travel devices. Those are good for light travel, like getting to work, but they aren’t very good for serious travel, like long distances, or carrying cargo.
Who the fuck buys gas multiple times a week??
I buy gas about once a month, maybe twice if I go on a trip.
I’d be happiest if gas was $10/gal or more, maybe it would rip this fucking driving fetish out of some folks minds.
If you drive every day, you’re probably going to buy gas at least twice a week, especially if you don’t like being too low. Plus, traffic is terrible where I live, and you burn a LOT of gas just sitting.
Most vehicles have a fuel tank capacity to give about 300-400 miles range.
Who is driving 600-800 miles every week? That is insane.
A lot of people. Especially those who have to do gig work to make ends meet.
It’s common to work fairly far from your home. I have had many jobs in my life with a daily commute of 50 miles or more, sometimes for years. Add to that side trips to the grocery store, or restaurants, or anything else, and it starts to add up.
I live at the southern tip of my population area. It’s 30 miles or bumper to bumper traffic to get downtown, and I did that commute every day for a while. I even had a job for short time in one of the northern suburbs, and my daily commute was 90 minutes, ONE WAY.
If you own a home, and you get a new job that’s in the same region, but even farther away, you don’t buy a new home near your job, you just suck it up, and leave earlier for work.
Going through a 400 miles tank of gas is a normal weekly thing in America, that’s why there are gas stations EVERYWHERE. Many people drive 10,000 miles a year or more. I always average more like 15-20,000 per year, because I drive a LOT for work, enough that I consider myself a professional driver for at least part of my job.
And then there is cargo shipping by truck. Again, America is a big place, and lots of stuff is shipped by truck, which travel a LOT of miles, and use very expensive diesel fuel. When the price of shipping goes up, EVERYTHING goes up.
Oh you absolutely are an idiot
Even better, they used to be a “useful idiot” to someone - now they’re just another idiot useless to everybody.
